Instead, Capt. Cheryl Moore-Arabalo was fired for misappropriating money from the Denver Sheriff Foundation, according to 15 disciplinary records from 2012 obtained by The Denver Post.

The Post also obtained videos in two 2013 cases. One involves a deputy who was shopping online and eating corn flakes when he mistakenly released the wrong inmate. The other involves a deputy accused of leaving his post and allowing two inmates to douse another inmate with cleaning chemicals, a hose and a bucket of dirty water.

Gaynel Rumer, the deputy who overlooked the 2011 attack on former inmate Jamal Hunter, was suspended in 2012 for 40 days because Hunter was beaten and scalded by other inmates on his watch.

Edward Keller, the deputy caught on video choking Hunter, has not been punished, but a 30-day suspension has been recommended.

Two other punishments more severe than Rumer’s were handed out in 2012 for deputy misconduct.

He was suspended 52 days for sexually harassing a co-worker, sending inappropriate e-mails and bringing a Kindle to work to relieve boredom, according to his disciplinary letter.

Another deputy, Matthew Robinson, was suspended for 75 days for covering another deputy’s affair with an inmate. Anthony Romero, the deputy having the affair, was fired in 2011, according to his disciplinary letter.

The Post received 60 disciplinary letters issued over 2½ years that show deputies getting into trouble for everything from assaulting inmates to failing to qualify on their weapons.

In the latest batch of reports from 2012, 15 deputies were disciplined for various cases of misconduct.

Those cases included:

• Deputies Robert Apodaca and Arex Coleman were suspended after they got into a shouting and shoving match at the Lindsay-Flanagan Courthouse. Coleman was suspended eight days; Apodaca was suspended for six.

• Deputy Keke Dable was suspended for 18 days after allowing an inmate out of his cell when he was supposed to be on lockdown, allowing him to beat up another inmate.

• Deputy Alvin Perez was suspended for three days after his incomplete paperwork allowed an inmate to be released.

• Deputy Staci Wright was suspended for 12 days after asking an inmate to write an unfavorable report on her supervisor. She also asked the inmate to guard doors while she made rounds.

Noelle Phillips, a Nashville native and a Western Kentucky University journalism school grad, covers law enforcement and public safety for The Denver Post. She has spent more than 20 years in the newspaper world. During that time, she's covered everything from rural towns in the Southeast to combat in the Middle East. The Denver Post is her fifth newspaper and her first in the West.

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